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Overview
Kasexi, translated as Philantomba, offers to plead for an anxious Antelope in a goat dispute. Antelope has borrowed Leopard’s male goat to breed with his female, promising to return the male with a young female after three births. Leopard repeatedly refuses the offered return because his corral is unfinished. When the herd reaches forty, he instead demands division of all the goats. Antelope rejects Kasexi’s initial offer of paid advocacy in anger, and the small animal leaves. The lawsuit proceeds before Lord Elephant with Lion and other beasts present.
Kasexi passes the court hastily without removing his cap. Elephant sends Deer to seize him, then orders him bound for disrespect. Asked why he rushed, Kasexi says he left his father giving birth and is fetching his mother from war. The assembled animals object that they have never seen a male give birth. He turns their objection back toward the lawsuit: Leopard’s ownership of a male goat cannot make that animal the mother of the offspring. Elephant and Lion order Kasexi released and award Leopard the male plus two females, leaving the rest undivided. The tale does not enact male pregnancy; that assertion is the advocate’s deliberately impossible comparison.
Origins & earliest records
Francisco P. dos Santos Vandunem of Loanda is the named contributor, distinct from Jelemía and Piolho in neighboring tales. Chatelain identifies the dialect as older Loanda speech and describes Vandunem as a blind trader. Editorial ancestry and broad kinship speculation are not necessary to the court episode.
Records & interpretation
Complete tale XXVI, The Lawsuit of Leopard and Antelope, bilingual pp. 196–201; English pp. 197, 199, 201. Named-contributor and dialect note XXVI pp. 297–298.
Selected bibliography
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Folk-Tales of Angola
Complete tale XXVI, The Lawsuit of Leopard and Antelope, bilingual pp. 196–201; English pp. 197, 199, 201. Named-contributor and dialect note XXVI pp. 297–298.
Family & connections
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References
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- Collected Ki-mbundu text with facing English translation and contributor notesChatelain 1894 — Kasexi of the Goat LawsuitResearch access: 2026-10-05
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